wairua
/ˈwʌɪruːə/noun (plural wairuas or same) NZ
The spirit or the soul: participants who stopped smoking confirmed a positive effect on their wairua...
- In retrospect, they could see how smoking had clouded their wairua "like a fog".
- I may not have Maori blood in me, but the spirit —wairua—of New Zealand is in me.
- The survival of the wairua was never assured.
Origin
Early 19th century: Maori.
- barbarously
- barbarousness
- Barbary
- Barbary ape
- Barbary Coast
- Barbary sheep
- Barbary States
- barbastelle
- barbecue
- barbecue sauce
- barbecue stopper
- barbecue summer
- barbed
- barbed wire
- barbel
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- Barber, Samuel
- barbershop
- barber's itch
- barber's pole
- barber's rash
- Barberton daisy